The War Crimes That Don’t Get Punished
The real war crimes that go unpunished are perpetrated by policymakers who drag us into wars for no good reason. ...
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Hey Trump: Remember Wikileaks?
Let’s hope President Trump recovers from his amnesia and orders his Attorney General to stand down. Assange deserves our gratitude, not a lifetime in prison. ...
Congress Fiddles While Trump Lurches Toward War on Iran
Trump’s opponents on both sides of the Congressional aisle don’t seem so enthusiastic about challenging the president when he actually does abuse his Constitutional authority to pursue a more aggressive policy...
Violence Against Women Act Does Violence to the Constitution
A common trick of big-government loving politicians is to give legislation names so appealing that it seems no reasonable person could oppose it. The truth is, the more unobjectionable the title,...
Obamacare’s Unhappy Anniversary
Individuals are more than capable of meeting their health care needs, and providing for the needs of the less fortunate, if the government gets out of the way. ...
Trump Tells the Truth: Sanctions Cause People to Suffer
This week President Trump admitted what the Washington policy establishment of both parties would rather be kept quiet. ...
The Green Bad Deal
The recently-proposed Green New Deal is proof that climate change is for progressive Democrats what terrorism is for neoconservative Republicans: a ready-made excuse to expand government and curtail liberty. ...
Bipartisan Attacks on the Second Amendment
The House of Representatives recently passed legislation that would expand the national background check system to require almost everyone selling firearms to perform background checks on the potential buyers. ...
Emergencies Do Not Trump the Constitution
President Trump’s emergency declaration is not just an end run around Congress. It is an end run around the Constitution. ...
Walter Jones and the Vote to End US War on Yemen
Ending senseless US wars is an idea whose time has come. We can thank Walter Jones for his role in making it so. ...
President Starts a War? Congress Yawns. Threatens to End One? Condemnation!
Last week’s bipartisan Senate vote to rebuke President Trump for his decision to remove troops from Syria and Afghanistan unfortunately tells us a lot about what is wrong with Washington, DC....
Shut Down the TSA!
Congress should permanently close the TSA and return responsibility for security to private businesses. ...
Fire the Fed?
President Trump’s frustration with the Federal Reserve’s (minuscule) interest rate increases that he blames for the downturn in the stock market has reportedly led him to inquire if he has the...
Campaign Finance Reform Helps Special Interests
One of the new Democratic House majority’s top priorities is so-called campaign finance reform legislation. Contrary to the claims of its supporters, campaign finance reform legislation does not limit the influence...
Trump’s Neocons Reverse His Syria Withdrawal Plan
Many people believe that the US president is just a figurehead, with actual foreign policy firmly in the hands of the deep state. Trump’s latest dramatic U-turn on pulling troops from...